Carol is Professor of Human Resource Management, based in Manchester Metropolitan University Business School’s Centre for Decent Work and Productivity. Carol’s research interests centre on creating decent work, including the intersection of gender, age and careers, and employment in the adult social care and small- and medium-sized enterprise sectors. 

Carol is currently working on a project on women’s health, including menopause transition, in a large NHS Trust in the north of England and has previously undertaken work on menopause transition in the police service. Carol was a co-author of the Department of Health and Social Care’s (2020) Gender Pay Gap in Medicine project. In adult social care, she is leading an NIHR/DHSC-funded project on pay variation, supporting a Local Authority to write its adult social care workforce strategy and has recently completed an ESRC Good Employment Learning Lab project where she led the adult social care learning lab exploring employment quality in the sector. She has undertaken similar work for Greater Manchester’s Independent Prosperity Review and Welsh Government. Her work on SMEs comprises various projects, including one for Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development evaluating People Skills, a project that delivered HR support to small firms.